Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (12): 2625-2641.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20250069

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Spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of scientific and technological innovation of Zanthoxylum bungeanum industry in Sichuan Province of China

CHANG Jie(), XIE Lei, LIN Zhengyu, GUO Yaohui, DU Xingduan, LIU Zongmin*()   

  1. Agricultural Information and Rural Economy Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610066, China
  • Received:2025-01-21 Online:2025-12-25 Published:2026-01-09

Abstract:

Sichuan is the largest province in the production of Zanthoxylum bungeanum in China, for Sichuan Province and even the western region, the study of the evolution trend of scientific and technological innovation is very conducive to promoting the high-quality development of the Z. bungeanum industry. Based on the patent data of Zanthoxylum bungeanum from 1991 to 2022, this paper used social network analysis and exploratory spatial data analysis to analyze the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of scientific and technological innovation in Sichuan Province. The findings are as follows: 1) Technological innovation exhibits a typical two-stage development characteristic,since 2010, the number of patents increased rapidly, and the main body of innovation changed from individual to enterprise-led. 2) The scale of industry-university-research cooperation was small, the cooperation between subjects was not close, and the network structure showed the characteristics of low density and scale-free. 3) From 2010 to 2022, the technological innovation chain showed a trend of expansion of the upstream, midstream and downstream industrial chains, however, the food industry is still dominant, and the technological innovation serving the production of pepper is still in its infancy; 4) The regions with high innovation scale have long been led by Chengdu, Ya’an, and Mianyang, while high level innovation areas have gradually changed from Aba Prefecture, Mianyang City, Guang’an City and other places to Ya’an, Meishan, Liangshan Prefecture and other places to lead; 5) The obvious areas of technology spillover are mainly concentrated in the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone, the western part of Liangshan Prefecture, some districts and counties of Zigong, Luzhou and Yibin in southern Sichuan, and some districts and counties of Nanchong, Dazhou and Guang’an in northeastern Sichuan, however, the number of high-high(H-H) regions is on a downward trend.

Key words: Zanthoxylum bungeanum, innovation network, spatio-temporal pattern, social network analysis, Sichuan Province

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